From PeteF: The Last Hurrah! So long and thanks for all the minioning (10 points)

So this is it for the Friday Follies of Challenge IX. I'm working on a couple of other projects that might just be ready by the 20th but in any event this will be my final Friday entry.

This Challenge has been a great motivation to complete an AWI project - I'm now in good shape to refight Weitzel's Mill. Just a few units to bring up to strength, some better hills and a river to complete and it will be ready for Enfilade! in May.

Here is one of the continental officers - Lt Col John Eager Howard - urging on his troops to stand up to the redcoats. One of the horses in my neighbourhood is a red roan which inspired this attempt at this whitish/red-brownish/pinkish colouring. I think red roan was a North American horse colour in the eighteenth century - but if it's anachronistic just wait for my hussars & cuirassiers riding Apaloosas.

Many thanks to HerrRobert for all the Friday minioning. I've enjoyed the commentary, especially anything Python related.

Final Friday entry - 1 mounted 28mm from Perry for 10 points.

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And huzzah for the last week of minioning. Starting today's lineup, we have a superb entry from PeteF. A Continental colonel, also known as an ally of . . . . the French.

Roans are well known in Europe in the workhorse breeds, if Wikipedia is to be believed. So it's not necessarily anachronistic to have roans in Europe. I've always been under the impression that the quality and color of horseflesh very much depended on both the nation and the state of the campaign. French would ride anything and, since they had notoriously poor horse care, generally had to. The Germans and British generally took much better care of their horses, and so would usually ride "national" breeds. French cuirassier on roans would be quite justifiable; Appaloosas, however, are right out! 

And ten points on the board for Pete!